Place branding holds a promising contribution to sustainable territorial development and requires changes in the social organisation of places, which implies complex transitional processes towards new management regimes. This article explores place River Minho estuary borderland Portugal Spain. It deals with tension between creating brand, enhancing market (endogenous) development. The central question is: ‘How develop successful inner brand context geographically peripheral area facing...

This paper introduces the concept of commoning in circular economies, and explores how commons reproduce over time. The starting point is that can have an important role fostering economies sustainable socially-inclusive development. By commoning, we refer to local stakeholders working collectively preserve or restore their natural resource base generate benefits are locally shared. Through analysis a specific case group commoners’ associations Galicia (Spain), describes discusses...

The path to sustainable development involves creating coherence and synergies in the complex relationships between economic ecological systems. In sustaining their farm businesses farmers’ differing values influence decisions about agroecosystem management, leading them adopt diverging farming practices. This study explores of dairy beef cattle farmers, assumptions that underpin them, various ways these lead farmers combine food production with provision other ecosystem services, such as...

European policy increasingly supports territorially based rural development in which local actors play a decisive role realising economically, socially and ecologically responsible development. This paper makes use of four case-studies, from largely depopulated mountainous area Galicia, Spain, where people strive to combine the creation new businesses with revitalisation natural resource base. The paper, analysing knowledge infrastructure its interface policy, reveals dominant grassroots...

The modernization of agriculture has caused and continues to cause an increasing disconnection between farming, nature, society, which also created a series social, economic, ecological crises in the food chain. Case study research farmers responding this situation can show us what changes are required encourage reconnection society. This paper provides ethnographic case two farms: one situated productive polder Netherlands, other disadvantaged mountainous area Galicia, Spain. They both...

The development of food production in cities has raised some important questions about the governance these activities and role city‐regions. In this paper through four European case studies– Bristol (UK), Ghent (Belgium), Vigo (Spain), Zurich (Switzerland) –we consider ways which is governed at city level. Our studies demonstrate played by citizens urban challenges brings to city‐region governance. Through horizontal networking, being inspirational other citizens, communicating their...

Economic optimisation of the gross margin per hectare in agriculture reduces diversity, coherence and identity cultural landscapes. Hence, landscape preservation calls for changes social–ecological organisation places, which implies complex transitional processes towards new management regimes. These are supported by CAP reforms (Horizon, 2014–2020) that increasingly turn from individual production subsidies to farmers collective natural resources related ecosystem services. This article...

The local turn to food is often claimed be a way increase the value-added component retained by primary producers and provide healthy, fresh affordable consumers. Rio do Grande Sul in Brazil has several governmental support programs that aim empower family farmers open up new market opportunities for them. This article examines these programs, investigates how small-scale engage with them resultant changes farming marketing practices ensue. uses cluster content analysis identify interpret...

Whilst in the dominant discourse on modernization of agriculture and forestry food timber production is related to world market, many places people relate consumption alternative ways. In city-region Vigo (Galicia, northwestern Spain) case study research how 'Comunidades de Montes Vecinais en Man Comun' (Associations Commons or CMVMCs) reconstruct value 'Monte', land traditionally multifunctional use but that has been subject a strong process abandonment, for both rural city dwellers....

Continuing urbanization means that city regions face challenges of development, governance, and sustainability. One these relates to the management urban green space, whether municipal parks, forests, or productive land (animal husbandry, vegetable fruit production). This paper draws on case study research forestry associations in Galicia. We pay specific attention role comuneiros (commoners): parishioners, who collectively own manage often‐neglected spaces: planting rejuvenating forests...

Although Chile is the world leader for table-grape export by volume, renewal of cultivars has just recently taken off. Among these, 'Maylen' ('Iniagrape-One'), a mid-season black cultivar from Chilean Breeding Program at INIA, stands out its flavor and excellent postharvest life. In order to accelerate development new under local conditions, we have developed two software tools improve phenotyping fruit quality characteristics either in laboratory or field. The first these tools,...